This volume maps out the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance in terms of analyzing the nature of performance itself and in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. A collection of distinguished thinkers in the field make this connection and offer perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: the history of hypnotism; ventriloquism; cloning; the cultural politics of race and nation; transgressive performance; and futurism. From rehearsal process to consciousness theory, digital performance to collective social trauma, the arguments advanced here...

This volume maps out the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance in terms of analyzing the nature of performance itself and in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. A collection of distinguished thinkers in the field make this connection and offer perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: the history of hypnotism; ventriloquism; cloning; the cultural politics of race and nation; transgressive performance; and futurism. From rehearsal process to consciousness theory, digital performance to collective social trauma, the arguments advanced here...

..".offers a wonderful panoply of theory and criticism, as well as exposure toimportant English language theatre artists, companies and productions." Theatre Journal "Analysing Performance" is a wide-ranging collection of essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts. Each essay tackles the theory and practice of contemporary performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analyzing dance, drama, music and videos. The commitment to cross-disciplinary approaches mirrors the breakdown of boundaries between these art...

Through Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution, " his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And...

Submitted as a graduate students Master Degree
thesis, Fall and Redemption is the story of a mans
journey of recovery from drug use, and how playing
country music helped him through it. The
student/addict moved to his home town
to come clean. His solaces were 12 step meetings,
solitude, and his fathers first electric guitar, an
old 1956 Silvertone Honky Tonk player that his
father used to play in a Honky Tonk band in the
1950s. The graduate students discovery of the
music, combined with familial and historical
research of the music led to a personal discovery of
the strength of...

Forests are the predominant natural vegetation in the eleven parks which make up the National Capital Region Network. In 2006 the NCRN began a long term forest vegetation monitoring program. The monitoring program consists of taking measurement of forest vegetation on a series of randomly located plots. The plots are modified versions of those used by the Forest Inventory Analysis program of the US Forest Service. This report summarizes the findings of the monitoring program at regional and park level for 2006.

This report presents a summary of the forest monitoring data collected in 2008 by the National Capital Region Network Inventory and Monitoring Program. The data collected is used for reporting on three vital signs: forest condition, exotic invasive plant species, and forest pests and diseases.

Ireland was hit by such a huge hurricane in 1839, the only one to occur in the country in 300 years, and County Donegal on the Northwest coast of the island bore the brunt of it as it roared ashore from the North Atlantic. The event is preserved in Irish folklore as the "Night of the Big Wind."

When the World Trade Center was bombed in February of 1993, the FBI classified the attack as an example of domestic criminality, even though all of the men accused of involvement in the attack were Muslim extremists who were not born in the United States. Yet, it was sheer luck that the bomb placed in the parking garage did not create a disaster that had ten times the fatalities of the 9/11 attack.

Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll was one of the last of the Irish mob bosses who at one time controlled illegal activities on the streets of New York. Vincent Coll was different from the typical New York mob boss, who was usually mature, middle-aged, battle-scarred veterans of the streets. He was very young when he began a career of violent crime-only a teenager-and only 23 years old when he was killed in a hail of bullets in a Manhattan drugstore. He had become the leader of his own gang and one of the most notorious criminals in New York by the time of his death. He was very different in another way:...